#really really really really dumb venting

[bunnymajo]

*Gets excited about Tanabata all week because I like to treat myself to a nice Japanese restaurant on that day every year, I was in the mood all week for it and was like "no. Tanabata's only in a couple days, be patient"*

Today at lunchtime: *big thunderstorm and flash flood warnings*

[scarymovies]

Okay, I have to talk about this because it's been bothering me so much. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga releasing brought up a lot of the Fury Road arguments from years ago... Where a lot of people (see: men) don't understand that outside of maybe the original Mad Max film.... Max Rockatansky is never the main character. He is always That Weird Guy who gets mixed up in some local skirmish, someone else's journey and really just everything that has nothing to do with him... He's the connective tissue through what is, in the mainline series entries, basically anthology.

ANYWAY... All of that MM discourse made me remember how a lot of people (see: men and Johnny Depp stans) thought that Jack Sparrow was the main character of the Pirates of the Caribbean films... Which is also objectively just not fucking true. The worst movies in the franchise, AKA the last two, tried to make Jack the protagonist but the series only ever functioned with him as a wacky supporting character to Will and Elizabeth... Because Elizabeth Swann was the main character of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy -- She has the most defined arc aside from Will, but unlike Will, she is brought into the world of Pirates from the outside and sees a full fledged transformation because of Will and Jack, two pirates, change her entire life.

Basically.. I’ll get to my point: Fury Road was always Furiosa’s story so of course the prequel we have out right now makes sense!! But also Elizabeth was the main character in the POTC trilogy -- The most I'll concede on is that you could see her and Will as two halves of the main protagonist -- And it was never fucking Jack Sparrow!! He was the Han Solo of the trio, he’s there to balance things while also adding some humor and scoundrel flavored mischief and tension!!

It’s just annoying when people erase women from narratives that rely on their role and existence.. All to prop up a man. Anyway I wrote all of this to say they should bring Keira Knightley back to POTC!! Fuck Johnny Depp, the people yearn for more Elizabeth Swann.

[queerbeverage]

If you make a transfem feel bad about getting bottom surgery you can go fuck yourself and die. If all you like us for are our penises then you are no better than a cishet chaser.

My biggest doubt that i have with getting bottom surgery comes from the queer community (& a few trans men, yay) telling me i will lose everything about me that is desirable. It's so utterly fucked. I don't see any depictions or talk about neovaginas in the queer & trans community. I know one (!) tumblr blog who writes smut about it. Fuckin' nothing else. No casual talk about neovaginas, no thirsting over them like y'all thirst over girldick. It makes me feel like i'll just be an inferior kind of woman with nothing "interesting".

When it should be the opposite! This is one of the most gender affirming things i will ever do.

[lem0nicle]

figuring out how to draw him🤷

im not really sure how to caption this

im feeling a lot more anxiety lately because of the approaching school year and i wanted to get it out??

i headcanon 8 with anxiety, idk why, its probably dumb sorry

also i hope im not bothering you with this

[mx-heartacoustic]

i just remembered i have to write some kind of report/essay for AP that’s due on like wednesday it’s fucking 12 am on a monday right now i can’t fucking sleep anymore fuck this why do you have to make me write it in the language i struggle at even though it’s my country’s language im gonna fucking explode thank FUCKING god it’s a holiday today

[no1ryomafan]

I’m debating if I’ll just use tumblr for proper analysis rather then me just typing up shit at 1 am-like I did last night lol-that I rotate because I’ve been thinking of multiple subjects that could either be video essays or long posts but I do think to test it out I should try writing up a post about Vent from ZX because I feel me making a tumblr post about why he’s not as bad of a character as people think he is I will get less flames then if I made it into a video 💀

(Also I said I’d do Grey but imma be real: love the boy but I feel it’s redundant to go in depth about him when the whole point people don’t like him is because he’s not like Ashe, where as I feel Vent suffers from “he’s just a worse Aile”. Grey deserves better though but I’ve seen more people like him than Vent being fully honest)

[sc3n3kitt3h]

IM LIKE IF A BOY WAS A MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL WAS A SCENE FAG

[vind3miat0r]

WGAT IF I KILLRD MYSELFG

[roachyreblobs]

kinda hate the stereotypes of Asians having this clear soft pale skin like no my culture isn’t just fucking anime and k dramas there’s other things to it :/

[bunnymajo]

I need tenrecs to become like a trendy animal or something, the amount of things shaped like tenrecs is incredibly small.

There's plushes of microbes out there but the only (commercially made) tenrec plush I can find is a dog chew toy...

[lagosbratzdoll]

Whenever I see adaptations of novels, comics, and games that elevate the source material, I get deeply and monstrously bitter. Wheel of Time, Foundation, Percy Jackson, The Boys, Outlander, Big Little Lies, Pachinko, Sharp Objects, WATCHMEN!!! All are so good, so beautifully written and moving that when you stack shit like Game of Thrones beside them, it falls flat on its face.

I still think about Jon telling Angela that he is in every moment they spent together all at once. Every time I think about Watchmen S01E9, my throat gets tight and my mouth wobbles. A triumph of storytelling. When you compare this with the disappointment that is Game of Thrones, it becomes clear that being mediocre, white, and a man often leads to success even when you fail.

I get angry because it’s possible to take novels/comics with so many moving parts and rich history, update them for our time and make the rich source material even richer. Those men just didn’t know how. 

And before anyone says the first three seasons are good. Are they? Are they really? Or are we just blinded by the perceived faithfulness to GRRM’s work when we weigh it against the utter shit show that was the last season? The show lifts all the best parts wholesale from the books and magnifies all the worst parts. 

They portrayed the Dothraki with a lack of care compared to the Free Folk. They furthered the lack of non-white perspectives by erasing what little we had. Presenting freedom as if it is worse than chattel slavery. The extinction of the Dothraki in service of white Northerners who were less than welcoming. 

The show does not name more than half of Daenerys' more prominent Dothraki characters on screen. Killing Irri, Jhiqui and Doreah to further isolate Daenerys. Transferring all the better traits from women to the men in their lives. Turning Jorah from an old paedophilic creep into whatever the fuck that was on the show. Alluding to the “first they came” poem for rapists, slavers and other monsters. Peddling the gentle slave-owner myth as if owning a person is not inherently violent. 

Having Missandei be beheaded in chains to fuel madness for literally no reason. Cersei could’ve bargained for her life or at least some concession from Daenerys with Missandei’s life, but they have her behead Missandei for no other reason than to piss off a woman with a large army and an even larger dragon. It made little sense then, and it makes even less sense now. 

I know it’s a bit much to still be so affected by that dumpster fire almost a decade in, but I saw that interview with those idiots yesterday, and I have been furious ever since. 

[1ns3ct3y3]

I’m gonna be so fucking lonely at school when my sister graduates next June

Then I’m gonna have to go through 2 more years of high school without her there

This also means i won’t get to walk to the bus stop with her :( im gonna cry so hard at her graduation she has no idea (she better give me a hug i haven’t gotten one from her in years..)

[crimzoncrow]

[faelapis]

whenever there’s discourse like some gay guy listed his fave queer movies and didn’t include enough wlw or whatever, all i can think is. holy shit you guys are cis.

[star-mum]

after all the "pre work" work I did, it's finally time to start writing the discussion of my thesis (aka actually analyse all the shit I said I was going to analyse and write "think pieces" on it) and Im gonna start pulling hair out

[vacantgodling]

like i could get a therapist but like, how am i supposed to be a tortured artist if i'm not... yknow... tortured